Agile Certified Practitioner Training
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Created by agilists for agilists, the PMI-ACP is our fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully than their slower-moving counterparts—75 percent versus 56 percent—as shown in our 2015 Pulse of the Profession® report.
Training at a glance
Level
Intermediate
Duration
3 Days
Experience
3 years: Project Management
Average Salary
$85,000
Labs
Yes
Level
Intermediate
Duration
3 Days
Experience
3 years: Project Management
Average Salary
$85,000
Labs
Yes
Training Details
The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) So, it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
Agile Principles and Mindset: Explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization.
- Agile primer
- Agile roles
- Agile artifacts
- Agile events
- Agile teams
- Change and agile projects
- Servant leadership
Value Driven Delivery: Deliver valuable results by producing high-value increments for review, early and often, based on stakeholder priorities. Have the stakeholders provide feedback on these increments and use this feedback to prioritize and improve future increments.
- Power value
- Avoiding downsides
- Prioritization techniques
- Incremental delivery for power value
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage current and future interested parties by building a trusting environment that aligns their needs and expectations and balances their requests with an understanding of the cost/effort involved. Promote participation and collaboration throughout the project life cycle and provide the tools for effective and informed decision making.
- Understanding stakeholder needs
- Ensure stakeholder Involvement
- Managing stakeholder expectations
Team Performance: Create an environment of trust, learning, collaboration, and conflict resolution that promotes team self-organization, enhances relationships among team members, and cultivates a culture of high performance.
- Team formation
- Team empowerment
- Team collaboration and commitment
Adaptive Planning: Produce and maintain an evolving plan, from initiation to closure, based on goals, values, risks, constraints, stakeholder feedback, and review findings
- Levels of planning
- Adaptation techniques
- Agile sizing and estimating
Problem Detection: Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve in a timely manner; monitor and communicate the problem resolution status; and implement process improvements to prevent them from occurring again.
- Creating safe and open environments
- Identify threats and issues
- Risk management
Continuous Improvement: Continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of the product, the process, and the team.
- Tailoring and adapting
- Retrospectives for quality improvement
- Incremental improvement
If you work on agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices, the PMI-ACP is a good choice for you. The PMI-ACP is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill as part of an agile team.
- Secondary degree
- 21 contact hours of training in agile practices
- 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP.
- 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years
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